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The power of habit is very strong.

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Strong, Habit, Very Strong

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Unless degree is preserved, the first place is safe for no one.

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Safety, Degrees, Safe

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He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak.

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Speech, Speak, Silent

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Every one excels in something in which another fails.

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Success, Failing, Latin Proverb

"The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 17, 1856.

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In every enterprise consider where you would come out.

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Enterprise

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That man has the fewest wants who is the least anxious for wealth.

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Men, Want, Wealth

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Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!

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Reputation, Difficult, Alas

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Hasty conclusions lead to speedy repentance.

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Repentance, Conclusion, Hasty

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He dies twice who perishes by his own weapons.

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Weapons, Dies

"The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 97, 1856.

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He is the least in want who is the least covetous.

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Want

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He who injures one man threatens many.

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Men, One Man

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He who leaves a fault unpunished invites crime.

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Faults, Crime, Invites

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He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.

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Men, Quarrels, Absent

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The property of others is always more inviting than our own; and that which we ourselves possess is most pleasing to others.

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Property, Inviting

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To have acquired wealth is with many not to end but to change the nature of their troubles.

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Wealth, Trouble, Ends

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Well does he sleep who knows not that his sleep has been broken.

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Sleep, Broken, Doe

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Modest women choose a man by the mind, not the eye.

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Eye, Men, Mind

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One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.

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Men, Evil, Wickedness

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No one knows what it is that he can do until he tries.

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Positive Thinking, Trying, Knows

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He who spares the bad injures the good.

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Justice, Spares

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

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Opportunity, Lost, Deliberation

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He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

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Evil, Want, Bent

"The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 459, 1856.

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You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.

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Wisdom, Opportunity, Glowing

"The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 262, 1856.

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You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

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Tree, Advice, Pears

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A pleasant companion reduces the length of the journey.

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Journey, Length, Companion

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Born: 85 BC
Died: 43
Occupation: Writer
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